UNITED STATES v. SEXTON COVE ESTATES, INC.

No. 75-1638.

526 F.2d 1293 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SEXTON COVE ESTATES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 17, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Sikes, Robyn Greene, Miami, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Robert W. Rust, U.S. Atty., Lawrance B. Craig, III, Asst. U.S. Atty., Miami, Fla., Wallace H. Johnson, Carl Strass, Eva R. Datz, Charles E. Biblowit, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BELL, AINSWORTH and DYER, Circuit Judges.


DYER, Circuit Judge:

Sexton Cove Estates (Sexton) and its former president Ralph Oesterle, appeal from the judgment of the district court requiring, because they had violated the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C.A. § 403, restoration, in varying degrees, of ten canals that they had dredged shoreward of the mean high tide line (MHTL) in Sexton Cove, a part of Blackwater Sound, in Key Largo, Florida, without a...

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